tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5499380851432081366.post930814099730590160..comments2023-08-14T04:21:28.224-07:00Comments on Blackland : loveangela simionehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05657554247759367168noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5499380851432081366.post-69621954319874993102010-06-12T19:22:27.338-07:002010-06-12T19:22:27.338-07:00hi marylinn,
taking notes in blogland is a great ...hi marylinn,<br /><br />taking notes in blogland is a great way to spend a saturday. :) there are so many smart people behind them these days. such gems. unexpected and wonderful.<br /><br />kiki smith's work is absolutely priceless. and thinking of excavation- her work is a prime example. encompassing the gore and beauty of fairy tales, religious history and lore,biology, feminism, and the psychology of childhood. <br /><br />i haven't thought of My Darling, Clemintine in years! thank you for the reminder. it is fitting and beautiful.angela simionehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05657554247759367168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5499380851432081366.post-41805848010937461652010-06-12T18:08:16.817-07:002010-06-12T18:08:16.817-07:00Howard Carter and King Tut's tomb found their ...Howard Carter and King Tut's tomb found their way into a weekly writing job I have, a retailer's newsletter. Excavation chants at me...words to "My Darlin' Clementine," for how many places do you find excavating in a lyric...ghost towns, burial chambers, forgotten civilizations. Kiki Smith is new to me...taking notes today in blogland. Not a peak brain day here. Ah, well. I will return.Marylinn Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02759437467691163658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5499380851432081366.post-49114228245280305732010-06-11T13:57:09.414-07:002010-06-11T13:57:09.414-07:00hannah! oh, i'm SO happy you like her work! ...hannah! oh, i'm SO happy you like her work! ecstatic!!!! and the comparison you draw between her and i is such a blushing honor. thank you for that! she is one of my biggest heros and best teachers, for sure.<br /><br />shadows ARE tasty! i like that! and i think there is a definite bravery in allowing things to remained unresolved, as you say. it takes a lot of guts and a lot of compassion to not force explanations or solutions. and poems and drawings are such a perfect place for those kinds of things.angela simionehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05657554247759367168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5499380851432081366.post-2051116936347446322010-06-11T13:53:28.486-07:002010-06-11T13:53:28.486-07:00roz!!!! there you are! i've missed you! YAY...roz!!!! there you are! i've missed you! YAY!<br /><br />i love this story! i'm going to have to try and get my greedy hands on a copy of this book. i have the issue of Vanitas that she illustrated and it is wonderful. i love how you describe her emotions here: weeping. and that you embrace it within your own practice. there's such honesty in that! simply beautiful. i've always loved her work so much because there are never any lies in it. no slick approach. no short-cuts. <br /><br />and thanks! i guess artist statements are allowed to be weird! :)angela simionehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05657554247759367168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5499380851432081366.post-54125708771802801062010-06-11T13:48:31.214-07:002010-06-11T13:48:31.214-07:00rebecca! ha!!!! yes! yes! yes! my mom and i were...rebecca! ha!!!! yes! yes! yes! my mom and i were talking the other day and both ended up agrreeing that i make a really BIG mistake when i compare my brain and heart and interests to people who aren't artists. normal is just as relative as beauty is, i guess. ha! i'm glad you like it!<br /><br />that word has been stuck in my mind too. and i think about archeology and how slow and careful and curious it is. how they dig in such small increments... largely with a paint brush of all things. :) it makes me happy and slows me down. it reminds me that the layers are just as exciting as The Find.angela simionehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05657554247759367168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5499380851432081366.post-10765862015875332912010-06-11T11:39:59.086-07:002010-06-11T11:39:59.086-07:00Mmm...shadows are tasty :).
I am with you on this...Mmm...shadows are tasty :).<br /><br />I am with you on this. Staying with the discomfort, or even the ambiguity...allowing everything to be unresolved.<br /><br />I love recommendations of artists and books from other artists and writers! I found Kiki Smith's work through you, and it is capital-G Great. I love seeing the connections between your art and hers (or making those connections in my mind).Hannah Stephensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15792203070774504501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5499380851432081366.post-20336099443258897582010-06-11T10:59:42.398-07:002010-06-11T10:59:42.398-07:00angela, i've been away from the blogosphere fa...angela, i've been away from the blogosphere far too long (work, work, too much work!), but it refreshes my soul always to come back here and find your latest postings... and now this on kiki smith! her work is so moving, and i've only seen a fraction of what you've seen. she's done collaborations with poets. one book collab i know of with the poet mei-mei berssenbrugge who is married to richard tuttle. in fact, i saw the three of them speak at a gallery once about the process of this collaboration, how mei-mei gave kiki the poems she was working on and kiki took them home and read them and just cried and cried for several days, and then she created drawings in response to them. and i was so struck by the porous immediacy (almost childlike) and depth of kiki's emotions in relation to art, and i thought this is true, this is right, this is exactly the right and appropriate response to art & the world that this art is speaking to, and ever since then i think of kiki's weeping whenever i start a new project or am stuck in a current project, and i have incorporated this kind of weeping as an integral part of my life & aesthetic process.<br /><br />hope you are well angela! this is indeed a weird, and very very good, artist statement.Roz Itohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17636685125028559316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5499380851432081366.post-23687242645540041372010-06-11T10:42:14.128-07:002010-06-11T10:42:14.128-07:00I was thinking about your word excavation again la...I was thinking about your word <i>excavation</i> again last night how perfect it is. A good artist statement is always going to be weird. I've never known talent to go hand in hand with normal :)<br /><br />xoRadish Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06534752971317927559noreply@blogger.com